Bush urged to block Mexican military-Agents cite rash of incursions

The Washington Times ^ | 28 Aug 2008 | Jerry Seper

[BGHater]

The U.S. Border Patrol's largest union local has asked President Bush to put an end to the scores of Mexican military incursions into the United States that have put Border Patrol agents at risk of being injured or killed.

"It is disgraceful that Border Patrol agents are put in harm's way and our government doesn't do everything reasonably within its power to protect us from marauding Mexican soldiers and others," said Edward "Bud" Tuffly II, head of Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) in Tucson.

"Without a forceful response to these illegal incursions, an agent will eventually be seriously wounded or killed. It is only a matter of time," Mr. Tuffly said. "The incursions will not stop until the Mexican military units and their commanders are held accountable for their actions."

In a letter Saturday to Mr. Bush, Mr. Tuffly asked the president to "take a strong stand against" Mexican military incursions.

He said Mexican soldiers have made hundreds of incursions into the United States and that some of them resulted in agents coming under gunfire and being detained at gunpoint.

"It is a documented fact that the Mexican military is corrupt and is involved in protecting drug cartels, smugglers and other criminals," said Mr. Tuffly, a veteran Border Patrol agent.

The NBPC represents all of the agency's 16,000 nonsupervisory agents. Mr. Tuffly's local is the union's largest, with about 3,000 members.

White House officials said Wednesday that they had not received the letter and referred inquiries to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

[Straight Vermonter]

Is the Mexican military chasing the drug dealers? Or helping them?

Which side do you think pays better?

[oldenuff2no]

To pursue an enemy that initiates the hostilities against a known border of long term position is playing into their hands. The attack might be meant to pull your unit across a border or into an ambush.
You have to call your own shots run your own ambushes/search and destroy missions according to your own reconnaissance/intelligence in the place and time of your choice.

[norton]

"To pursue an enemy that initiates the hostilities against a known border of long term position is playing into their hands. The attack might be meant to pull your unit across a border or into an ambush. "

That's what good intelligence and overwhelming force are for. I'm talking about Laos and the Yalu River, where restrictions handcuffed overt operations, not chasing indians into a blind canyon.

[BlazingArizona]

The protection of the American people from the invasion of foreign military rests squarely with the President of The United States.

The actual fighting is a military responsibility, certainly. The problem is that Washington will not admit this is happening. Nor will the MSM. Time for citizens to go out and bring back evidence of incursions to media sources that will listen: Drudge, et. al.

One potential source of hard information on this could be...amateur astronomers! They go out into the Arizona desert, to border sites like Vekol Valley, Sentinel, and Organ Pipe, armed with sophisticated camera gear and portable telescopes, looking for the darkest places. Now are dark-sky border places not the very routes illegals might also favor?

Intelligence is found in unexpected places.

[G.Mason]

I think you summed it up with ...

"The problem is that Washington will not admit this is happening. Nor will the MSM."

I don't know how bad it must get before action is taken.

I wish US well.